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Makerspaces

This guide has resources about Makerspaces as learning tools. **Also find technology that you can borrow from the ATA Library!

Technology in Your ATA Library

Silhouette Cameo Silhouette cutting device, cables, blade, and cutting mat

Sources of free SVG files: 

(You can use a conversion tool like CloudConverter or Inkscape to save the SVGs as JPEGs in order to be able to open them in the Silhouette software)

Sources for Free Fonts

Silhouette Cameo 4 + Cricut Easy Press  Silhouette cutting device, cables, blade, and cutting mat

Sources of free SVG files: 

(You can use a conversion tool like CloudConverter or Inkscape to save the SVGs as JPEGs in order to be able to open them in the Silhouette software)

Sources for Free Fonts

Simple Machines: STEM Experiment Kit   Simple machines made out of gears and levers
 

Simple Robotics Kit for BBC Microbit  Simple robot made of cardboard, wheels, and electronics from kit

 

Smart Agriculture kit for microbit  Components of kit: circuit board, wires, usb cable, and sensors

Smart Coding Watch Kit  

Smart Cutebot for microbit   Close up of assembled cutebot car

Smart Farming Kit for Microbit  New   Wires and tubes run from a bucket of water to a circuit board and then to lettuce leaves in another bucket with an addition circuit board.
 

Smart Health kit for microbit  Components of kit: sensors, circuit board, getting started manual

Smart Vehicle Kit for Microbit  A cart with two wheels is composed of plastic. On top is a black circuit board. At the end of the cart, a pen is taped vertically and will likely create a line as the vehicle moves.
 

Smartphone Movie Maker  A box which is used with a smart phone to make movies.

Snap Circuits Brightly coloured electrical circuits that snap onto a white plastic board

Solar Experiments Kit for the microbit  Box of parts: motor, fan, solar panel, cables and instruction kit
 

SparkFun Inventor's Kit for Microbit (Class set of 10) 

SparkFun microbit Educator Lab Pack (Class set of 10)  microbits, circuits, and wires from the kit
 

Sphero A robotic ball

Sphero Indi  Robotic cars with instruction manuals and activity cards
NOTE: Due to Weight Restrictions this kit cannot be mailed. It must be picked up from our library.  Please contact your school rep to make arrangements to bring this item to your school.

Sphero Mini Education (Class set of 16)   Open box of sphero minis with parts spread in front of the box

 

Sphero RVR  A drivable robot that resembles a dunebuggy

Sphero Specdrums (Class set of 12)  Specdrums being played on a colourful pad near a smart tablet

Squishy Circuits Batteries and LED lights with instructions for creating conductive and non-conductive dough

STEM & Robotics ERP Mini Set  New     Car made out of brightly coloured bricks sits in front of the kit box

STEM Kit Prosthetic Hand 

  Robotic hand emerging from a bundle of wires

Stikbot Zanimation Studio Green screen box with stick figures, and a camera stand for a smart phone

Super Sphere  A colourful robotic sphere

 

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